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By: chapati mystery » Blog Archive » South Asian Studies at ASPAC

chapati mystery » Blog Archive » South Asian Studies at ASPAC — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:22:05 +0000

[...] has graciously agreed to let me guest-blog my conference experiences again, this time about South Asian studies at the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference [...]

By: John Voll

John Voll — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:37:39 +0000

I simply want to thank Jonathan Dresner for his sound summary of the session that I organized and chaired. This is a conceptually exciting time in the development of how we analyze and understand global/ world history and the distinctive parts of that broader whole. His summary is very helpful.

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:29:48 +0000

Dude– you never read ROOTS?

No, actually. It was one of those cultural moments that kind of passed me by, and I’m not an Americanist so I’ve had little reason to go back to it.

But it’s never shown up in any of my World History textbooks, or in other US history scholarship I’ve read…. there’s still a way to go before this is really integrated into the common knowledge.

By: Frog in a Well - The Japan History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The Japan History Group Blog — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:33:56 +0000

[...] and anti-statist Japan Focus ran this piece. I also did a late report from the AHA on some Islamic history panels that my friend Sepoy was kind enough to host at his blog. (Brian Ulrich is on the Sunni-Shia split [...]

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:29:37 +0000

Superb summary Jonathan, and greatly appreciated. I especially found the portion of 18thC “reformist” theologies, and possible parallels with the Reformation, instructive.

Re: “I can‚Äôt believe this never occurred to me before, or showed up in the World History textbooks ‚Äî that millions of the African slaves which came to the Americas ‚Äî perhaps as many as one in five ‚Äî were Muslims. ”

Dude– you never read ROOTS? Kunta Kinte is a Muslim…

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:10:24 +0000

Thanks very much for hosting this. I just wanted to say, as well, that any errors are almost certainly mine, not the presenters, and I apologize in advance to them if I got anything wrong.